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Italy's data protection authority has told OpenAI that its artificial intelligence chatbot application ChatGPT breaches data protection rules, the watchdog said on Monday as it presses ahead with an investigation started last year. The authority, known as Garante, is one of the European Union's most proactive in assessing AI platform compliance with the bloc's data privacy regime. Last year it banned ChatGPT over alleged breaches of EU privacy rules. The service was subsequently reactivated after OpenAI addressed issues concerning, among other things, the right of users to decline to consent to its use of personal data to train its algorithms. At the time, the regulator said it would continue its investigations. It has since concluded that there are elements indicating one or more potential data privacy violations, it said in a statement without providing further detail. OpenAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The Garante on Mon...

The body that unites Europe's national privacy watchdogs said on Thursday it had set up a task force on ChatGPT, a potentially important first step toward a common policy on setting privacy rules on artificial intelligence. The move by the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) follows a unilateral move by Italy last month to curb ChatGPT - a stance that Germany's commissioner for data protection said could be followed in Europe's biggest economy. Spain's AEPD watchdog said on Thursday that it too would launch a preliminary investigation into potential data breaches by ChatGPT. ChatGPT, an AI program that grabbed the public's attention for its ability to write answers quickly to a wide range of queries, has grown to be the fastest-growing consumer application in History with more than 100 million monthly active users, while raising questions about threats it may pose to safety, privacy and jobs. Experts, US government and several other ...

“I’m untraceable” is a mindset held by thousands of social media users who believe their online privacy settings hide their personal details. But a new TikTok series is revealing a confronting truth – almost everyone can be found. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Woman shares how easy it is to find someone online. Watch the latest news and stream for free on 7plus >> Chicago woman Kristen, known as @notkahnjunior on TikTok, has been using her platform to share a chilling insight on how easy it is to find someone’s personal details even when they believe their privacy settings are at their highest. The trend, known as “consensual doxxing”, involves the 32-year-old exposing the name or birthday of people who challenge her to find their details online. Kristen is not a data privacy expert nor is she trained in cyber security. But similar to solving a puzzle, she works through the steps to uncover personal information of people who claim to be “top secret” in a bid to show how difficult it ...

A US appeals court on Wednesday revived a lawsuit accusing Alphabet Inc's Google and several other companies of violating the privacy of children under age 13 by tracking their YouTube activity without parental consent, in order to send them targeted advertising. The 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals in Seattle said Congress did not intend to pre-empt state law-based privacy claims by adopting the federal Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA. That law gives the Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general, but not private plaintiffs, the authority to regulate the online collection of personal data about children under age 13. The lawsuit alleged that Google's data collection violated similar state laws, and that YouTube content providers such as Hasbro Inc, Mattel Inc, the Cartoon Network and DreamWorks Animation lured children to their channels, knowing that they would be tracked. In July 2021, US District Judge Be...

Personal details of more than 130,000 Telstra customers have been exposed online in a major privacy breach. The telco giant admitted the data, which includes the names, addresses and phone numbers of customers who had asked to remain unlisted, had been released on the White Pages and Directory Assistance Services websites. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Telstra customer s exposed in data breach . Watch the latest News on Channel 7 or stream for free on 7plus >> Telstra said no cyber hack was involved, instead it was the result of a “misalignment of databases”. The company says it has removed the customer details from public view. “This was a result of a misalignment of databases – no cyber activity was involved,” chief financial officer Michael Ackland said. “We are conducting an internal investigation to better understand how it happened and to protect against it happening again.” Telstra apologised for the breach in a company blog post. “We’re sorry it occurred, and we know we have le...